Configuring IIS6 with VB.NET

Posted By: lethalbyte | Dec 9th, 2005 @ 3:46 PM
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#Dec 9th, 2005 @ 3:46 PM
lethalbyte
lethalbyte
I need to write a very small tool to allow sales staff to add web sites to IIS6.0 from within a VB.NET (2005) app.  Can someone point me in the direction of the best technology to do this... I've been trying to use the DirectoryServices namespace, but keep getting Access Denied errors when I point it to a remote server.

Any clues?

Thanks a lot,

Paul
#Dec 9th, 2005 @ 4:25 PM
W3bbo
W3bbo
lethalbyte wrote:
I've been trying to use the DirectoryServices namespace, but keep getting Access Denied errors when I point it to a remote server


That's how you're meant to be doing it.

Just ensure that the ASP.NET process your application is running under (or the ASP.NET Application itself) has full Administrative rights.
#Dec 9th, 2005 @ 4:35 PM
lethalbyte
lethalbyte

It's actually a winforms app I'm writing?  Is there anything special I need to do for this?  My windows account is a member of the admin group on the server, if that's of any use.

Thanks,

Paul

#Dec 10th, 2005 @ 4:27 PM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie

Aw!

You should do this with WMI !!!
That's the recommended and much more powerful way for IIS 6.0!
And the way to go forward.

It's also fairly easy, you find lots of examples in the WMI reference.

The namespace you need is System.Management

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